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Offline Emir of Askaristan

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Re: Russian Conquest of Central Asia 1860's-1880's
« Reply #135 on: April 28, 2022, 05:47:16 AM »
I think these are better. Only a little thicker now and that may resolve itself when painted.

Have you printed any test samples to see how they look painted?

Offline marco55

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Re: Russian Conquest of Central Asia 1860's-1880's
« Reply #136 on: April 28, 2022, 10:49:35 AM »
Reply #100 has some painted ones but with the old sculpts.I haven't got any  from him yet.He says it's very hard to get the fabric thinner.Maybe because the figure is a 1/72? I don't know anything about 3-D printing maybe it depends on the printer.
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Re: Russian Conquest of Central Asia 1860's-1880's
« Reply #137 on: April 28, 2022, 11:44:58 AM »
It probably is down to the difficulty of making the fabric look thin enough - looking at these from Esci - the shirt is as thick as the jacket, so you're not alone.

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/SetScans/ESC237c.jpg

However they went to market with the figures, so perhaps it's less of an issue than you think, especially in that scale.

Offline marco55

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Re: Russian Conquest of Central Asia 1860's-1880's
« Reply #138 on: April 28, 2022, 12:09:29 PM »
Maybe they would look better to me at actual scale.The bigger the picture the more imperfections you see.
Mark

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Re: Russian Conquest of Central Asia 1860's-1880's
« Reply #139 on: May 01, 2022, 04:03:03 PM »
Mark, please don’t stop the project! These look great, and in 1/72 scale will be perfect!! I honestly believe they will look awesome painted up

Offline marco55

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Re: Russian Conquest of Central Asia 1860's-1880's
« Reply #140 on: May 01, 2022, 04:16:46 PM »
I have decided to continue so hopefully I will get 15-20 figures done eventually.
Mark

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Re: Russian Conquest of Central Asia 1860's-1880's
« Reply #141 on: May 04, 2022, 08:19:02 PM »
This is the first 5 finished.I think they look pretty good. I will get another bunch started in about a month.
Mark

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Re: Russian Conquest of Central Asia 1860's-1880's
« Reply #142 on: May 04, 2022, 08:32:38 PM »
I'm actually getting these made in 20mm not 22mm as I won't be using Massimo's figures for this group.I bought some Turkomen and Afghans off Newline Designs. I may have a few Central Asians done after the Russians.
Mark

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Re: Russian Conquest of Central Asia 1860's-1880's
« Reply #143 on: May 24, 2022, 02:49:58 PM »
I received my figures but as nice as they were they didn't fit in with the figures I have.So I asked my sculptor to make me some 22mm.
Mark 

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Re: Russian Conquest of Central Asia 1860's-1880's
« Reply #144 on: May 24, 2022, 10:48:15 PM »
Keep us posted!

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Re: Russian Conquest of Central Asia 1860's-1880's
« Reply #145 on: May 25, 2022, 01:38:21 AM »
I will.
Mark

Offline JBaumal

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Re: Russian Conquest of Central Asia 1860's-1880's
« Reply #146 on: May 26, 2022, 01:45:01 AM »
 Mark, I really like the designs, I think they look awesome!!!! I can’t wait to see them cast / printed and painted up.

Offline john Hollyoak

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Re: Russian Conquest of Central Asia 1860's-1880's
« Reply #147 on: May 26, 2022, 06:38:53 PM »
These are really get nice. I have wanted a good set of colonial Russians for ever..Are these going to be produced digitally? If so, scaling down to 15/18mms would be easy enough.
John

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Re: Russian Conquest of Central Asia 1860's-1880's
« Reply #148 on: May 26, 2022, 06:44:29 PM »
These are for my personal use.I don't think they are going to sell these commercially. I wish they would.
Mark
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Offline Redshank

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Re: Russian Conquest of Central Asia 1860's-1880's
« Reply #149 on: May 30, 2022, 08:56:37 AM »
These are for my personal use.I don't think they are going to sell these commercially. I wish they would.
Mark

Excuse my ignorance of the 3D printing world, but once someone has done the sculpt, why on earth would they not market the figures, at least selling the files if not doing the printing themselves?

I see many people selling STL files of 3D-printable stuff for download on Etsy.